The HRDC Summer Student Grant Debacle

HRDC has completely rewritten the guidelines for grants to hire summer students and hundreds of museums - hundreds! - across the country now have no way of staying open or maintaining regular hours and programs. The supposed $5 million, which was meant to materialize at the Canadian Museums Association (CMA) for distribution to museums across the country to compensate for this predicted disaster, has not; and the CMA are claiming they will want to use their own criteria in distributing the money if it actually does surface, thus potentially leaving many museums and students still unfunded or underfunded.

When questioned about the $5 million contingency plan in the House, Oda gave the Conservative mantra "I am proud of the efforts of this government blah, blah, blah" and of course, as they all do, completely failed to answer the question.

Not a smart move - in one fell swoop, show hundreds of communities across the country - rural and urban, and many young people, how mean, incompetent or both this "new" government is.